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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
VACANCIES
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 2 - Administration, Article IV (Officers and Employees, Division 1 - Generally, Section 2-142 of the Cook County Code is hereby amended as Follows:
Sec. 2-142. Vacancies.
The following provisions shall apply to the following separately elected positions: Assessor, County Clerk, Sheriff, and Treasurer (hereafter also referred to as "County Office" or "County Officer"):
(a) Committee of same political party to appoint. In the event of a vacancy, such vacancy shall be filled to no longer than the end of the unexpired term as dictated by this Section by appointment. The appointment shall be done by the appropriate committeepersons of the political party of which the incumbent was a candidate at the time of the candidate's election or appointment. The appointee shall also be of the same political party that the incumbent was at the time of election or appointment.
(b) Composition of committee. In the event of a vacancy, the committee that shall appoint the separately elected County Officer shall consist of Cook County committeepersons of the same political party that the incumbent was at the time of election or appointment. In making appointments under this Section, each committeeperson shall be entitled to one vote. A candidate is required to receive the majority of the total number of votes in order to be appointed. In making appointments under this Section, each Cook County township or ward committeeperson shall be entitled to one vote for each vote that was received, in that Cook County township or ward which the committeeperson represents on the committee, by the County Officer whose seat is vacant at the general election at which that County Officer was elected to the County Office which has been vacated (or the County Officer's elected predecessor, if the County Officer whose seat is vacant was appointed), and a majority of the total num...
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